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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

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TO A SEA GULL. Bound the wild" note of the wind and the sea., Thou gypsy of the air. Thy'soul is'uplifted ou wings that are Aa tho white spray that thunders Where black reefs lie bare. Scream to the storm winds that rage while you sleep; They echo the cry of souls lost in the deep. Like a white flake that's swept from the wrath of the seas, Soarv in the heavens and breast the cold breeze. Symbol of wrecks and the world's misery— Vagabond heedless, unheeded and free. —H. O'Connor, in California Occident. THE SISTERS. Says the wind, I can not find her, And the house, I can not find her. Birds can fly less fast than she, Thistledown less tauntingly. And: when vapours veil the sun, Then her rapid race is run, And the falling raindrops lave All she leaves us—just her grave. Nay, that is not really she, 'Tis her.sister, Gayety. She.-the true one, does no 4 wander, Seeketh tiot what lies beyond Iter; Vagrant paths her footsteps shun, And the boldness of the sun. Hovers never share her smile, Yet die smileth all the while, ' And when dusk and raindrops come, 6till she sitteth in my home. • Gayety. how art thou less Than thy sistar, Happiness. —From "Poems," by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. 1